The photography of Marcin Sobas
Spot Cool Stuff is sometimes asked for advice on what camera lenses to bring on a trip. The short answer is: It depends†. Different camera types, different travel styles and different destinations require different lenses. If you are going on a nature trek to somewhere with rolling hills and ...
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Pirate’s Island at the Beach Turks & Caicos Resort
For such a sun-drenched, humidity-soaked, tourist-filled region, the Caribbean has surprisingly few really great water parks. Perhaps the best of them, and certainly the largest, is at the all-inclusive Beaches Resort in the Turks & Caicos. It's there that Pirates Island beacons the young — and the young ...
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Are those insects or stars beneath Waitomo, New Zealand?
When it is time for vacation and you go online to research ideas, it often happens that small things can make a big difference in choosing your destination. Take, for instance, the tiny glowworm. The unusual creature is only about the size of a small mosquito. But when gathered ...
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Many pockets, little bulging
Not many articles of clothing come with instructions on how to wear it. And even fewer come with instructions on how to wear it that you'd actually want to read. In fact, we can only think of one: The Scottevest Travel Vest. Simply putting on the Travel Vest doesn't ...
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Tour the historic buildings of Sweden’s capital by walking atop them.
For some travelers the opportunity to take a guided walking tour of historic buildings is about as appealing as taking a walk through an airport security checkpoint. Yet even those travelers would find the offerings by Stockholm tour operator Upplev Mer cool. That's because their tours don't walk ...
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Part interactive science museum, part funhouse
The Edinburgh Castle is the largest and most famous tourist attraction in Scotland's capital. But in its shadow, almost literally, there's another must-visit destination: The Camera Obscura and the World of Illusions. Operating since 1835, it's part unusual art gallery, part interactive science museum, part surreal funhouse — ...
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